1845 in Australia
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
- Governor of Queensland - (office first formed in 1859)
- Governor of South Australia - Sir George Grey (to October 25), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
- Governor of Tasmania - Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
- Governor of Victoria - (office first formed in 1851)
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - John Hutt.
[edit] Events
- March 12 - St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated.
- August 4 - The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.
- July 20 - Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
- June 21 - News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
- December 17 - Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.
- Wool export in Australia - 24 million pounds.
[edit] Births
- February 25 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
- April 15 - Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer. (d. 1919)
- June 16 - William Charles Kernot, engineer.
- June 21 - Samuel Griffith, politician and judge.
[edit] Deaths
- August 5 - John Blaxland, pioneer grazier.
